Lawton

Whatever is good in interior decoration is the result of consistent relationship between Light, Color, Form, Proportion and Dimensions. The choice of Color should be guided by the conditions of Light. The beauty of Form and the symmetry of Proportion can exist only by a balance with Dimensions. Therefore, apart from any knowledge of historic or period decoration, effective or successful work must observe the technical laws governing conditions.

Asperger Syndrome (AS) has, as Dr. Suzanne Lawton so correctly reminds the
reader, baffled Dr. Hans Asperger and baffles parents, children, physicians, and
other health care practitioners, researchers, and others to this day. We cannot
seem to agree on the cause or even, universally, on the diagnosis, much less the
treatment. Auditoriums full of angry, impassioned, sometimes desperate, parents
have gathered to berate the apparent lack of concern on the part of governmental
institutions regarding mercury-laden vaccine preservatives.

In the field of aging, disability is measured by judging how a person performs Activities of Daily Living
(ADLs) or Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs).
ADLs include very basic activities like eating, toileting, bathing, transferring in and out of bed, and walking
(Katz, Ford, Moskowitz, Jackson and Jaffee, 1963). IADLs include additional activities needed to get along
in the world such as shopping, taking medications, using the phone, and other activities. (Lawton and
Brody, 1969.

The social and economic environment is the fourth domain. A key factor in this domain is crime
(Lawton, Nahemow and Yeh, 1980). Fear of crime is an important factor in reducing physical activity outside
the home for elderly persons (Dowd, Sisson and Kern, 1981). It is also a stressor that can influence health
through pathways related to chronic stress. Fear of crime is related both to actual crime levels and to
deteriorated aspects of the physical environment such as vacant buildings, litter and homeless persons (Rohe and
Burby, 1988; Krause, 1996).

This passionate partisan piece of doggerel in support of past Everton heroes
chanted en masse in my boyhood primary school playground, has continued to
reverberate in my head down the years. Heroes sometimes achieve immortality
in odd ways!
Dixie Dean and Tommy Lawton were ‘Terrace Heroes’ of my north-western
childhood. Graham Kelly has added to this small but sacred pantheon with his
study of the lives and times of his Topical Times Ten. He places them in their
cultural context, explains their social purpose and explores their common significance.
This makes good sense.